GDT: 2023 NHL Draft - (1st Round - 6/28 at 7PM ET and Remainder of Draft - 6/29 at 11AM ET)

[Chinatown88]

Absolutely. I mean to me, Reinbacher is a very high floor sure thing. But the ceiling just isn’t there. He’s a 2/3 guy at best and I want more from 7OA in this draft.

My final top 15
1. Bedard
2. Fantilli
3. Michkov
4. Carlsson
5. Benson (the more I see, the more I love this kid)
6. Smith
7. Moore (I want those wheels)
8. Leonard (l really do like him, just think that there are 7 guys that are better)
9. Sandin-Pellikka
10. Gulyayev
11. Dvorsky
12. Cristall
13. Simashev
14. Reinbacher
15. Danielson

Don’t really think there’s much separation between 12-15 on my list and there’s 4-5 other guys who are right at that level too.

Can I get a 5 and a number 12 please?

 

[Angry Hockey Dad]

For me, what would be a roughly ideal 1st round?

7: Michkov or Benson
22: Gulyayev, Simashev, Cristall, Perreault, Musty

I quite like Šalé too if he is there at 22.

Benson and Musty would be fantastic.

I think Leonard played all forward positions this year so maybe he can play RW.

Gauthier - Frost - Leonard?

 

[PDX Flyer]

If the draft officially starts at 7pm ET, how long until they're done with, say, first 10 picks?

European asking for a friend.

Depends if Clarke is taking the pick up and forgetting the name

 

[Rebels57]

I've decided to reserve all bitching and moaning until after the results of tonight. If no one else is traded and they botch the picks, it's gonna be hard to support Briere going forward.

 

[Sombastate]

time to start stretching so my limber body can deal with the disappointment tonight will ultimately deliver

I've decided to reserve all bitching and moaning until after the results of tonight. If no one else is traded and they botch the picks, it's gonna be hard to support Briere going forward.

Exactly how I feel. With the exception of the reserving. I'm preemptively bitching so that way when I have something to bitch about, I'm exhausted enough to go to sleep

 

[Hanover Fist]

Dvorsky at 7 and then Denis Gauthier's kid at 22 because: size

They are taking Musty at 22

 

[trostol]

by all things that are Philly sports...i am prepared to be disappointed!!!!

 

[Sombastate]

Gonna go with this top 10:

Bedard
Fantilli
Carlson
Michkov - WASH
Leonard
Reinbacher
Smith
Moore - SJ
Dvorsky
Benson

And then we weep

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Thinking a trade down from 22 is coming hopefully gain a 2

With everything we have that could fetch a 2nd and more, I'll start burning homesteads to the ground if they do that shit. I might start now.

 

[bauer]

For me, what would be a roughly ideal 1st round?

7: Michkov or Benson
22: Gulyayev, Simashev, Cristall, Perreault, Musty

I quite like Šalé too if he is there at 22.

Same, though my list has Ritchie in place of Musty. I’m really high on him.

 

[Rebels57]

Ethan Gauthier is 5'11

I just assumed he was big based on his old man lol

 

[Magua]

I can't take the Flyers passing on the obviously more talented player for the umpteenth time, and then we watch another team have a star that Bob Clarke says the scouts wanted all along, and we sit here like it's the end of The Green Mile wondering when the hell this is all going to end. And Laughton is our Mr. Jingles.

Sometimes the Orange Mile seems so long.....

 

[Beef Invictus]

I can't take the Flyers passing on the obviously more talented player for the umpteenth time, and then we watch another team have a star that Bob Clarke says the scouts wanted all along, and we sit here like it's the end of The Green Mile wondering when the hell this is all going to end. And Laughton is our Mr. Jingles.

Sometimes the Orange Mile seems so long.....

I'm sure they'll luck into a playmaker at 22, then spend his entire formative years ruining the creativity out of him while privately proclaiming that playmakers are bad and we just need grindy shooters.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I find myself getting angrier by the nanosecond.

 

[Columbus Hockey Dad]

I find myself getting angrier by the nanosecond.

Me too. I think it might be time to step away...

 

[Beef Invictus]

Me too. I think it might be time to step away...

No. You've gotta glue in the buckles.

 

[DrinkFightFlyers]

Do we actually think that the draft will start at 7 or is that when "coverage" begins and it will really be like 8:30. Trying to plan dinner haha.

 

[Rebels57]

I find myself getting angrier by the nanosecond.

This thread is definitely not helping. I think i'm staying out of this one until tomorrow lol.

 

[Curufinwe]

What channel is the draft on?

 

[CutOnDime97]

What channel is the draft on?

ESPN

 

[sa cyred]

Do we actually think that the draft will start at 7 or is that when "coverage" begins and it will really be like 8:30. Trying to plan dinner haha.

My 4 yr old was promised the carnival today. I plan to place DND on my phone, record it and come back, pour myself a drink and either be happy or severely disappointed (which I guess is status quo with this team).

 

[Danko]

My 4 yr old was promised the carnival today. I plan to place DND on my phone, record it and come back, pour myself a drink and either be happy or severely disappointed (which I guess is status quo with this team).

Yeah, i've got hockey tonight...so after we get beat by a bunch of 20 year old college kids i was planning on drowning my sorrows with the draft.

 

[Danko]

Im hoping for Michkov
Would be ecstatic for Will Smith
Would be happy with Ryan Leonard

 

[Magua]

I find myself getting angrier by the nanosecond.

Can't we just have something good, Cap? One prospect we all universally love and believe in? One star to be a beacon and bridge us into a Newer New Era of Orange and not the 2017-17 Blue Jackets Redux? Isn't it pretty to think so?

 

[GKJ]

Its Michkov or Leonard.